Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 118-pound co-captain Paul Widerman won on a default, the Crimson dropped 10 consecutive points in the following two weight classes to fall behind 10-6. Freshman Phil Kline was entangled in a tight 7-7 match when he suffered a pin, and Harvard's Dan Medalie, pitted against one of UMass' strongest wrestlers in Doug Johnson, succumbed to a 16-7 decision...
UMass kept up the scare in this non-league match as the Harvard team was only able to pull away on the strength of the upper weight class contestants. While Andy McNerney put on his usual fine performance in the 142-pound weight class. Fritz Campbell failed to demonstrate the intensity he will need on Saturday against Yale, as he lost a disappointing match...
...expand his fleet of DC-10s and Airbus A300s with the intention of adding new services between European and Asian capitals. Then trouble struck. Fuel prices surged, recession in the U.S. and Europe cut into passenger traffic, and the rise of the dollar's value against the pound upset Laker's balance sheet. Much of his revenue was in pounds, but he had to make debt payments in dollars...
They've been mumbling about my weight," he said while doctors confirmed that the 55-year-old Nobel Peace Price winner will have to lose 18 to 20 pound in addition to severely curtailing his activities for the next weeks...
Some of the jobless who stayed put are struggling to cope. From the Detroit suburb of Hazel Park, Larry Hampton, 26, sets out once or twice a week in his pickup truck to search the streets for scrap. Sheet metal brings a penny a pound; cast iron $45 a ton. On a good day, Hampton earns $15, and it keeps him busy. "I've just got too many bills and not enough money to pay them," says Hampton, who lost his job in a machine shop last November. "It's scary...